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Verizon's Mobile Video Won't Count Against Data Caps -- but Netflix Will (arstechnica.com)

Posted by timothy on from the what's-worth-what-to-whom dept.

Earthquake Retrofit writes: Ars Technica has a story about how Verizon Wireless is testing the limits of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules; Verizon has announced that it will exempt its own video service from mobile data caps—while counting data from competitors such as YouTube and Netflix against customers' caps.

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  1. Re:It's their network, they should be able to by paiute · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they get too heavy handed with it, people will bail.

    Damn straight. If Comcast pulls this shit, I will dump them for Xfinity.

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  2. Can we just make it legal to shoot executives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Please? It really would solve so many problems...

  3. Re:Just a Few Thoughts by radarskiy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alternative theory: Verizon's home growth mobile video is crap that no one wants, thus the usage is so low that they can afford to give the bandwidth away from free.